There are many things wealth cannot buy, and most of those are enumerated by philosophers who have never woken wondering if this day would be their last.
Raised on
Non c'è nulla che non valga la pena sapere.
Non c'è roccia su cui l'anima mortale possa naufragare che non contenga qualche delicato viticcio di gentilezza umana che lotta per sopravvivere.
Non sempre chi accondiscende è debole.
Nothing like truth to leaven a good lie.
Suspended between the carefree child of the Sanctuary I had once been and the confident adult I wished to become.
On my knees, I touched the tip of my tongue to my lips, catching a drop of his seed. Pleasure-chamber. My very skin shivered, anticipating the lash. As you wish, my lord, I whispered. It is not needfu...
Ray bent his head toward her, and they smiled at each other, a pair of blissful ghouls in love.I might have felt sorry for them if the continued existence of their relationship didn't necessitate gene...
Whatever complicated emotions I felt for him, I didn’t want to ruin the moment with my unfortunately stereotypical American ignorance of history and geography.
One must gauge one's trust carefully.
One never thinks, until one is badly injured, about the myriad intricate ways in which the parts of one’s body are connected.
There would be love, and while it was mine, I could cling to it. I could rejoice -- in life, in the existence of love. In the existence of people like Phedre and Joscelin. Although the standards they...
Our eyes met. We had so very many shared memories between us, Bao and I. Some were wonderous, and some were terrible. Some were both.
Your goddamn bloodsucking boyfriend's been promising to change you for eight years! Jen said grimly. Wake up and smell the plasma, Beth!
Talk is healing. It’s the unexamined wound that festers.
Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you
Poetry glories in excess. When it's not extolling the virtues of austerity.
Poets in their chambers began to scribble notes.
Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty… and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our s...
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